About 600,000 fewer Hoosiers receive their health coverage through a job than did at the start of the century. Uninsured people can apply to get taxpayer subsidized coverage starting next year.

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Indiana has seen one of the biggest drops in the share of residents getting health insurance through an employer, according to a report to be released Thursday.

While 78 percent of non-elderly Hoosiers had coverage through their job or a family member's job in 2000, only 63 percent did in 2011, according to the report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a philanthropy whose mission is improving health care. That means about 600,000 fewer Hoosiers receive their health coverage through a job than did at the start of the century.